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    Molly in Fall (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 5) – A Clean Western Mail Order Bride Romance
    Molly in Fall (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 5) – A Clean Western Mail Order Bride Romance
    Molly in Fall (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 5) – A Clean Western Mail Order Bride Romance
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    Molly in Fall (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 5) – A Clean Western Mail Order Bride Romance

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    All she was looking for was a quiet little wedding. Instead, she got an adventure!
    Courage, Kansas, 1873: Unaware of the city ordinance that prohibits it, young rancher Josey Adams brought his pistol with him into the saloon. Needless to say, this didn't make him friends with Sheriff Theo MacRaven. When the lawman locks him up, Josey has no choice but to break out, because an hour from now his mail order bride from New York City will arrive at the train depot in Providence, Kansas—and he's over in Courage.

    Irish immigrant Molly McGuire and her grandmother Gran have left the slums of New York City and traveled far to find a new home in the West. But instead of Josey they accidentally meet farmer Honestus Newbigin, who seems to be a really nice man. But where is Molly's groom?

    And then there's this hot air balloon at the town fair that Gran is desperate to ride in...

    Please check out the other books in the Brides of Courage Series. They are:
    Once Upon the Prairie, Book 1, (available free!)
    She Came one Winter, Book 2
    A Bride in Spring, Book 3
    Heart of Summer, Book 4
    Molly in Fall, Book 5

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharaya Lee
    Release dateJul 10, 2015
    ISBN9781310172274
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      Molly in Fall (The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book 5) – A Clean Western Mail Order Bride Romance - Lenny Davis

      Lenny Davis

      &

      Sharaya Lee

      Molly in Fall

      The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Book Five

      A

      Wild West

      Mail Order Bride Romance

      Copyright 2014 by Lenny Davis and Sharaya Lee

      All rights reserved!

      No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher, except where permitted by law, or in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      You can reach us here:

      susleeauthors@gmail.com

      The Brides of Courage, Kansas, Series:

      Once Upon The Prairie, Book 1

      She Came One Winter, Book 2

      A Bride In Spring, Book 3

      Heart Of Summer, Book 4

      Molly in Fall, Book 5

      This story is a work of fiction.

      Any resemblance to actual locales, incidents or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      ***

      Chapter 1

      The Kansas Frontier, 1873

      Sheriff, you've got to let me go!

      Josey Adams rattled the steel bars of the cell that held him. Sheriff Theophilus MacRaven, who sat at his desk, cast a wary glance through the open door into the jail tract. A fire was raging in his prisoner's bright blue eyes. Josey could barely suppress his indignation. His short black hair seem to be bristling.

      My bride will arrive at the Providence depot in less than an hour and I've got to be there! Josey said. She's counting on me! She knows nobody in these parts.

      When the sheriff didn't react, he took a deep breath.

      Now, Providence is an hour away. If I ride fast, I'll make it. But you've got to let me go. Don't you understand, Sir?

      MacRaven looked at the young man out of hard gray eyes. He didn't know Josey, and like so many before him, the youngster was probably just pulling his leg, trying to get out of jail on the cheap. But Theo wasn't falling for the young man's antics. He'd been at this for too long.

      He put the pen down on the report that he was about to write and said, You should have thought about that before you went to the saloon with your pistol strapped on.

      I didn't know about the ordinance, Josey said. I'm from Providence and not from Courage. In Providence this is no big deal.

      Ignorance is no defense, the sheriff replied. Besides, the ordinance is posted right inside the saloon. Anybody who has eyes to see—which you don't seem to have—can see it hangin' there.

      I was in a hurry and—

      You sat there long enough, the sheriff interrupted him.

      I was eating, Josey said. I had my eyes on my food and my mind on my bride.

      I can only repeat myself. Either you pay the dollar fine or you'll have to spend the night here, like everybody else who does what you done.

      Josey didn't have a full dollar on him or he'd have left long ago.

      You're making my bride to suffer, he huffed.

      MacRaven sighed and folded his hands. The law is no respecter of persons, Son. If I let you go on account of your excuse, I'll have to let everybody else go who offers me one in the future. That makes a joke of the law. I'm not going to have that.

      She's not coming by herself, Sir, Josey said, trying one more time. She's got her grandmother with her. A bride and her grandma won't have any idea about where to go if I don't meet them. It's going to be a cold night for them, Sir, out in the streets of Providence. And you and I both know that Kansas is not a safe place for ladies, especially at night and in October.

      MacRaven was hunched over his report again. He ignored the young fireplug completely. A bride and her grandma. It was ridiculous. The ideas people came up with to get out of jail…

      Josey clenched his teeth. You don't believe me, do you?

      Nope.

      Pent-up frustration made Josey to rattle the bars again.

      Your making noise doesn't change a thing, the sheriff admonished calmly.

      Josey inhaled briskly. All right then, I'll behave. He realized that there was no use in antagonizing the only man who could help him, which was MacRaven, the man with the key to his cell.

      Suddenly the door to the sheriff's office burst open and an agitated lady of about thirty years stood in the frame. Her chest was heaving, her eyes were wide and her voice shaky when she said, Sheriff, you've got to come over to the hotel.

      What is it, Mary? MacRaven said.

      We have a guest who's acting up, Mary McAllister, the proprietress of the McAllister hotel, explained. He doesn't want to pay all of his bill and now he's even drawn a gun on my husband.

      MacRaven rose immediately. He can't do that.

      The sheriff took his hat off the rack, put it on and grabbed a rifle. A moment later the door closed behind him and Mary McAllister. Now alone, Josey heard them speak outside the window as they walked away on the boardwalk.

      He closed his eyes.

      He needed to get out of this cell. And quickly.

      But it was securely locked.

      Think! he told himself.

      He opened his eyes and looked at the key on its peg on the wall beside the desk. It was too far away. Being of normal length, his arms were way too short to reach it.

      Again and again Josey paced the floor from wall to wall, thinking hard on how to get out.

      MacRaven...

      This lawman was a stickler for the word of the law.

      There was no doubt in Josey's mind that MacRaven was a good sheriff.

      A good sheriff…

      Josey scratched his chin.

      A good sheriff took precautions. Should it ever happen that some crooks locked the sheriff into his own jail cell, the sheriff would surely be prepared for that contingency. He'd know a way out.

      Absent a gun, the only way to unlock a jail cell was with a key. Which meant, there had to be a key in here somewhere. Surely, there was.

      But where?

      Josey quickly studied each and every one of the silver bars that formed the front of his cage. But none had a key or any similar device attached to it.

      Eagerly he jumped on the bunk in order to reach the narrow window high up in the wall. His fingers ran along the edges and checked the corners, but a key wasn't there either.

      Josey touched the brick stones in the walls, every one, feeling for a loose one, but found none. They were all as solid as they were supposed to be.

      The floor!

      Josey's gaze darted around on the floor, checking the edges and the corners, but it was to no avail. There was no loose stone in the floor to serve as a hiding place, either.

      What else was there?

      The bunk!

      The wooden frame was unmolested. It had a mattress covered with brown sackcloth on it. Josey felt the mattress with swift fingers, but found nothing but straw.

      In desperation he scooted the bunk away from the wall and studied the bed's backboard—and found what he was looking for. MacRaven had worked a narrow recess into the board, just wide enough to hold a key, which Josey now took out. He held the black metal up triumphantly.

      Victory!

      The key fit neatly into the lock of the cell door. Josey turned it slowly so as not to make it squeal. He had no desire to draw any attention to himself. As soon as the door was open, he put the key back into its hiding place and scooted the bunk back towards the wall. There was no need to make anybody aware of MacRaven's ploy. The sheriff deserved better than that.

      Josey put his hat on and quickly left the cell. He retrieved his pistol from the drawer into which he'd seen the sheriff place it. As soon as the gun was in his belt, he snuck out the back door and crossed over to the livery, where he knew MacRaven had stabled his

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